The contributors to "The Archaeology of Africa" offer new insights and perspectives on a whole range of themes critical to African prehistory and early history.

At long last, the archaeology of Africa has revealed enough of Africa's unwritten past to confound all preconceptions about this continent and to upset the truth' as so far inferred from historic written records. Africa's past was a vibrant and unique one. Without an understanding of its past complexities, it is impossible to grasp Africa's present, let alone its future.